A team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most common form of homemade explosives.

Are you an American terrorist sympathizer but don’t know how to strike back at the Great Satan? Afraid of getting arrested while your plot to blow up something or other is still half-baked? You don’t have to worry anymore. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency want to hire you.

Almost anything that blows up can be turned into an IED, from grenades to plastic explosives to leftover mines. The most everyday of electronics — a cell phone, a garage door opener, a child’s remote-control toy — can be recast as a trigger. And the hiding places for the handmade bombs are

FALLUJAH, – Iraqi doctors in al-Anbar province warn of a new disease they call “Blackwater” that threatens the lives of thousands. The disease is named after Blackwater Worldwide, the U.S. mercenary company operating in Iraq.

“This disease is a severe form of malarial infection caused by the parasite plasmodium falciparum, which is

An investigation has been launched after a US container ship opened fire on a small Egyptian boat as it approached the Suez Canal. Egyptian sources including the country’s official news agency say one man was killed and two injured when the Global Patriot opened fire.

A Chinese-born US engineer convicted of conspiring to smuggle sensitive technology about US Navy submarines to China was on Monday jailed for 24 years, justice officials said.Chi Mak, who worked for a US company with several Navy contracts, was convicted last May of trying to export intelligence about silent submarines in

New Film Echoes What Many Americans Want to Say – “Washington, You’re Fired!”

A new documentary presents compelling first-hand testimony and whistleblower accounts that punch holes in the official “war on terrorism” excuse that has been used to dismantle the U.S. Bill of Rights and tip the scales of executive checks and balance in

For the past 20 years or so there has been an accelerated movement to develop a modern shoulder-fired weapon for close-range defense, a weapon offering easy concealment, good range and great terminal ballistics. Of course such a concept is not new and began a century ago with the stocked pistols and

WASHINGTON – Democrat Hillary Clinton charged on Monday the Iraq war may end up costing Americans $1 trillion and further strain the economy, as she made her case for a prompt U.S. troop pullout from a war “we cannot win.”

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, but voters

Americans learned last week that, whatever the law says, they shouldn’t assume that their private communications are private. It was a big week for Big Brother, with but a single, small ray of hope at week’s end.

— The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the National Security Agency, which is supposed to spy

Counter-terrorism experts call it a ‘force multiplier’: an attack combining slaughter and electronic chaos. Now Britain’s security services want total access to commuters’ travel records to help them meet the threat

Millions of commuters could have their private movements around cities secretly monitored under new counter-terrorism powers being sought by the security services.

It sounds like the far-fetched plot of a sci-fi thriller: Bad guys strike down a high-ranking politician or captain of industry by hacking into and remotely tinkering with his or her pacemaker, insulin pump, implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) or other medical implant. Unfortunately, new research shows such a scenario is no longer just science fiction.

WASHINGTON — A White House plan to broaden the National Security Agency’s wiretapping powers won a key procedural victory in the Senate on Thursday, as backers defeated a more restrictive plan by Senate Democrats that would have imposed more court oversight on government spying.

An Atlas 5 Rocket, on its first mission from the West Coast, successfully launched a classified satellite early Thursday. The Atlas 5 411 lifted off at 6:02 am EDT (1002 GMT) and placed a classified satellite for the National

ALTERSHAUSEN, Germany – A 30-year-old Soldier based in Schweinfurt died early Friday from gunshot wounds he suffered in a standoff with German police after he broke into the home of a former girlfriend and threatened her at gunpoint.Neither the Army nor the German police would identify the Soldier. Army officials were in the process